# New Agers: just stop.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 24, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780 "2012-04-24T05:03:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-agers-just-stop/619780/81 "2012-04-27T22:21:06Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> I’ll agree to all those points, but I still have a soft spot for the working class industrial city full of immigrants.

Plus apparently there’s very loose zoning so you can put the strip clubs just about anywhere. Which I’m sure rankles more than a few bible thumpers, and that’s A Good Thing. All that BBQ meat-eatin’ and gun-totin’ probably rankles more than a few New Agers and, well, that’s A Good Thing, too.

Though sure, “Texan New Ager” is sort of an awkward concept to wrap one’s mind around. “Mellow but well-armed” sounds more like Vermont to me. Then again we’re not talking Gulf Texas or Frontera Texas, we’re talking Fort Worth. So it may be a special case where all the granoloids headed for FW because they felt intimidated of trying it at the Big D…

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